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Sanchez was a Mexican professional boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Sanchez was the WBC and lineal featherweight champion from 1980 to 1982. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that had it not been for his premature death, Sánchez could have gone on to become the greatest featherweight boxer of all time. Sánchez died on August 12, 1982 in a car accident from Querétaro to San Luis Potosí. In 1991, Sánchez was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The Ring magazine named both him, and Sugar Ray Leonard, as Fighter of the Year in 1981. In 2002, he was named the 24th greatest fighter of the past 80 years by The Ring magazine. In 2003, The Ring rated Sánchez number 88 on the list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. Sánchez was voted as the #3 featherweight of the 20th century by the Associated Press.

She is an American former boxer who held world titles in three different weight classes simultaneously. Wolfe is regarded by many within the sport as one of the greatest female boxers of all time. Wolfe early Life was very rough, she was molested as a preteen,. She was a dropout unable to read or write when her mom died. That same year, her father was killed. Her brother was also killed in an attempted robbery. Another is serving a life sentence. Furthermore, She served 18 months in Prison on a Drug Charge. After that, living a straight life didn't come easy. With two young daughters, Wolfe tried to provide in any way she could. The result was a year spent working construction during the day and being homeless through the night. Wolfe and her daughters lived under a boat in a desolate parking lot. She also was a personal trainer and coach of several professional boxers, including former light middleweight contender James Kirkland. She appears in the 2017 film Wonder Woman in the supporting role of the Amazon Artemis.

He is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2013. He held multiple titles at middleweight, including the IBF title in 2013; the Commonwealth title from 2007 to 2009; the British title in 2009; and the European title from 2010 to 2011. As an amateur, Barker represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the light-welterweight division.

Rocky was an American Professional boxer who competed from 1947 to 1955, and held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956. He is the only heavyweight champion to have finished his career undefeated. His six title defenses were against Jersey Joe Walcott (from whom he had taken the title), Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles (twice), Don Cockell and Archie Moore. He known for his relentless fighting style, formidable punching power, stamina, and exceptionally durable chin, Marciano has been included by boxing historians in lists of the greatest boxers of all time. Marciano remains the only fighter to have stopped every opponent he has ever faced for the world heavyweight title, and holds the highest knockout-to-win ratio in world heavyweight title fights at 85.7%. His career knockout-to-win percentage of 87.8% remains one of the highest in heavyweight boxing history.

Martin Murray (born 27 September 1982) is a former British professional boxer who competed from 2007- 2020. He has held the WBA interim middleweight title from 2011 to 2014, the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles between 2010 and 2012, and challenged five times for a world title.

Jake LaMotta was an American professional boxer, world middleweight champion, and stand-up comedian, Actor. Nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" or "Raging Bull", LaMotta was a rough fighter who was not a particularly big puncher, but he would subject his opponents to vicious beatings in the ring. With use of constant stalking, brawling and inside fighting, he developed the reputation for being a "bully";

Due to his hard style of fighting, LaMotta often dished out as much as he took in an era of great middleweights. With a thick skull and jaw muscles, LaMotta was able to absorb incredible amounts of punishment over the course of his career, and is thought to have one of the greatest chins in boxing history. LaMotta's six-fight rivalry with Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the most notable in the sport. Although each fight was close and LaMotta dropped Robinson to the canvas multiple times, LaMotta won only one of the bouts. LaMotta, who lived a turbulent life in and out of the ring, was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull. On November 14, 1947, LaMotta was knocked out in the fourth round by Billy Fox, In his testimony and in his later book, LaMotta admitted to throwing the fight to gain favor with the Mafia.

Billy Collins Jr was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983. His career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious injuries against Luis Resto in their ten-round bout. Aided by his trainer Panama Lewis, Resto used illegal, tampered gloves with an ounce of the gloves' cushioning removed, along with hand wraps which had been soaked in plaster of Paris. In 1986, Lewis and Resto were tried and convicted of assault, conspiracy, and criminal possession of a deadly weapon (Resto's plaster of paris wraps); prosecutors felt that Lewis' actions made the fight an illegal assault on Collins. Both served 2​ 1⁄2 years in prison.

Today's Episode is about Anthony Lewis Bellew is an English former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2018. He held the WBC cruiserweight title from 2016 to 2017, and challenged for the undisputed cruiserweight championship in his final fight. At regional level, Bellew held the British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles between 2010 and 2014, the European cruiserweight title from 2015 to 2016, and is a three-time ABA heavyweight champion as an amateur. He also portrayed villainous boxer Ricky Conlan in the 2015 Rocky film Creed.

Today's episode is about Carlos Monzon, an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for 7 years. He successfully defended his title 14 times against 11 different fighters and is widely regarded as not only one of the best middleweights in history but also one of the greatest boxers of all time pound-for-pound. Known for his speed, punching power and relentless work rate, Monzon ended his career with a record of 87-3-9 with 59 knockouts, each one of his losses were early in his career and were avenged. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, he was chosen by The Ring magazine in 2002 as the 11th greatest fighter of the last 80 years and voted him as the best middleweight title holder of the last 50 years in 2011. As of January 2018, Monzón holds the 2nd longest unified championship reign in middleweight history at 9 consecutive defenses.

Argentinians adored Monzon throughout his career. His glamorous and violent life was avidly followed both by the media and Argentine people. He was, however, accused many times of domestic violence by his two wives and many mistresses, and of beating paparazzi. Charged with killing his wife Alicia Muñiz in Mar del Plata in 1988.

Today's Episode is about Riddick Bowe, who is a retired American professional boxer who competed between 1989 and 2008. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion in 1992, and as an amateur he won a silver medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

BoxRec currently ranks Bowe at No.68 among the greatest pound-for-pound boxers of all time with 392.8 points. He is the fifth highest ranked fighter to have only faced heavyweights during his professional career. BoxRec also gave both of his victorious fights against Evander Holyfield a 5-Star rating. In a 2010 article by BoxingScene, Bowe was ranked the 21st greatest heavyweight of all time. In 2015, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Outside of boxing, Bowe was convicted of the February 1998 kidnapping of his estranged wife Judy, and their five children. Thinking it would reconcile his marriage, Bowe went to his wife's Cornelius, North Carolina home and threatened her with a knife, handcuffs, duct tape, and pepper spray. He forced her and their children into a vehicle and set out for his Fort Washington, Maryland home. During the kidnapping, Bowe stabbed his wife in the chest. Police captured Bowe in South Hill, Virginia, freeing his family.

Today's episode is about a German boxer Christina Hammer, who is known for her patient and systematic boxing style, wearing her opponents down with jabs and increasingly aggressive follow-up rights, in addition to this, she is a multiple-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO female middleweight title from 2010 to 2019, becoming the youngest boxer in history to win a WBO title. Previously she held the WBC female middleweight title between 2016 and 2018, and the WBO female super-middleweight title in 2013. She also challenged once for the WBO female light-middleweight title in 2014 and once for the undisputed female middleweight championship against Claressa Shields in 2019. In February 2021, she returned to the amateur ranks with the intention of competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Furthermore Hammer's victory against Zita Zatyko earned her Fighter of the Year Award by the WBF and WBO; she was awarded BDB's Female Boxer of the Year; and the WBO awarded her with the WBO Diamond Ring for exceptional performance.

Today's episode is about Jermain Taylor an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first, and to date, only male boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight. He once again defeated Hopkins six months later, making him the only fighter to have defeated Hopkins twice. He would also later hold the IBF middleweight title for a second time.

Today's episode is about a British former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to March 2020. He held the WBA super-bantamweight title from 2013 to 2016, and the British super-bantamweight title from 2011 to 2012. Quigg was known for his relentless work ethic as he grinded for everything he achieved in boxing, constantly working on himself to improve as a fighter, for example When Quigg moved to the Wildcard gym in LA to train under HOF trainer Freddie Roach he said that Quigg 'works harder than Pacquiao', stating, "His work ethic is great and we've seen a lot of really good changes already in the gym.

Today's episode is about Ray Mancini, who competed professionally from 1979 to 1992 and who has since worked as an actor and sports commentator. He held the WBA lightweight title from 1982 to 1984. Ray was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. On November 13, 1982, a 21-year-old Mancini met 27-year-old South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim. Kim had struggled to make the 135 lb weight limit, and had to lose several pounds shortly before the fight. The title bout, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, was televised live on CBS Sports. It was, according to many observers, a fight filled with action. Mancini won by TKO in the 14th round. Moments after the fight ended, Kim collapsed and fell into a coma, having suffered a subdural hematoma, and died four days later. This fight changed lives and boxing forever, The aftermath had catastrophic repercussions and not just for Mancini, who was still only twenty-one at the time. A few months after Kim died, the South Korean’s mother killed herself and, shortly after, the same fate befell Richard Greene, the man who had refereed the fight. A glaring media spotlight only added to the emotional turmoil. In addition to this boxing changed forever as Kim's death lead to the WBC to take steps to shorten its title bouts to a maximum of 12 rounds. The WBA and WBO followed in 1988, and the IBF in 1989.

Emile was a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who became a World Champion in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. His best known contest was a 1962 title match with Benny Paret. At the weigh in, Paret infuriated Griffith, a bisexual man, by touching his buttocks and making a homophobic slur. Griffith won the bout by knockout; Paret never recovered consciousness and died in the hospital 10 days later.

In 1963 and 1964, Griffith was voted Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America. In 2002, he was listed #33 on Ring Magazine's list of 80 greatest fighters of the past 80 years. Griffith currently ranks #127 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.

Today's Episode is about Nel Tarleton an English featherweight boxer from Liverpool, England. He was British featherweight champion on three separate occasions and was one of only seven fighters to win two or more Lonsdale Belts outright.

In addition to this, Over the course of his 19-year career, he won the featherweight titles of Britain, and was one of the very best featherweights of the 1930’s.

The Liverpool native stepped into the ring with Hall of Famers Panama Al Brown (fighting him to a draw) and Freddie Miller twice. Additionally, he fought 148 times, won 119 times, had 21 losses and 8 draws and was never stopped, just emphasising how durable and good he really was, whilst only having one functioning lung. Tarleton contracted tuberculosis when he was two-years-old and never weighed more than 140 pounds in his life. He was weak and often roughed up as a child, until a bully, of all people, invited him down to the Everton Red Triangle Boxing club.

That's where he immediately fell in love with the sport of boxing.

Today Episode is about Anthony 'Million Dolla' Crolla, who is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2019. He held the WBA lightweight title from 2015 to 2016, and challenged once for the unified WBA and WBO lightweight titles in 2019. At regional level, he held the British lightweight title from 2011 to 2012. The life story of Crolla is about hard work and determination, Crolla went from being upset in his 9th bout to a journeyman, but came back and beat him. He then lost to Gary Sykes in 2009 and came back from that to win the British lightweight title in 2011. He lost that title to Derry Matthews in 2012, and then lost to Sykes again in the Prizefighter tournament, also in 2012. He drew with Mathews in a 2013 rematch.

In short, Crolla was really not supposed to reach the big stages. But he did. And he reached his biggest stages after major injuries suffered outside the ring, as he was left with a fractured skull and broken ankle when confronting burglars in Dec. 2014. He always just kept fighting and never gave up instead pushed on and went on to fight the biggest names in the lightweight division in Jorge Linares and Lomachenko but also beat former world champs in Ricky Burns and Gavin Rees. Crolla really lived his dream, he went from fighting on undercards to headlining his own venues and selling out crowds in the Manchester Arena, time and time again becoming a much supported fighter who fans, specially the mancunians growed to love, chanting his name everytime he made a ring walk and lighting up the atmosphere in the arenas everytime he fought.

He really became a Manchester sporting legend, specially on the night when he silenced the doubters and critics and completed his lifelong dream of becoming a world champion.

Today's episode is about an Italian–Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007.

He was a World champion in two weight classes, Gatti held the IBF junior lightweight title from 1995 to 1998, and the WBC super lightweight title from 2004 to 2005. He also participated in The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year a total of four times (1997, 1998, 2002, and 2003). Gatti was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on December 10, 2012 in his first year of eligibility, becoming the tenth Canadian boxer to be so inducted. Gatti was famously known for his trilogy fights with Micky Ward, specially the 1st and the 3rd fight which got put part of HBO's 10 best fights of the decade also I highly recommend you to go and watch them fights as they are really the definition of warriors going at it. Furthermore, Gatti Death came as shock to many as he was only 37 years old and it came with a lot of mystery and confusion with his wife first being arrested for homicide and then released after an autopsy done in Brazil ruled his death was suicide, however there was a lot of claims by friends, family that Gatti would never commit suicide and that the wife of Gatti was guilty of murder as her motive was Gatti's fortune, which Rodrigues inherited since she was able to coerce Gatti to void their prenup agreement three weeks prior to his death.

#Boxing🥊Today's episode is about a Legend, Boxing Hall of Famer Joe Calzaghe, who was a Welsh former Professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held world championships in two weight Classes , including the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal super-middleweight titles, and the Ring light-heavyweight title. Calzaghe is the longest-reigning super-middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the WBO title for over 10 years and defending the title against 20 boxers (a record in the division, shared with Sven Ottke) before moving up to light-heavyweight. As his super-middleweight and light-heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active boxer at the time. Calzaghe was also the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (WBA, WBC, and WBO) at super-middleweight, and was the first Ring champion in that weight class.

Between 2006 and 2008, Calzaghe was ranked by The Ring as one of the world's top ten active boxers P4P reaching a peak ranking of third in January 2009. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record, and as a reigning world champion. As of 2020, BoxRec ranks Calzaghe as the seventh greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the greatest European boxer of all time.

Today Episode is about a former World Champion boxer, who fought from Welterweight all the way to Heavyweight and an Early Hollywood actor. He was controversial in and out of the ring. And frankly, I think he liked being like that.

From his invention of the “corkscrew punch” (a punch that added a twist to the moment of impact which made for an excellent way to slice and open up opponents’ faces)to his 10 marriages to eight different woman, conviction of manslaughter and eventual suicide. McCoy was always known as someone who loved to play tricks inside the ring, for example, he lulled the reigning welterweight champion Tommy Ryan into a false sense of security before their fight by rubbing flour on his face and pretending to be ill. McCoy was also alleged to have invented the ruse of informing his opponent that his shoe was untied to enable McCoy to strike a blow when the unwary adversary would look down at his feet.

He also would sometimes stop in the middle of a fight to convince his opponent to check out the pretty lady in the front row and when this worked, the distracted opposition was met with a McCoy right-hand. Furthermore, He appeared in films, including a scene fighting Wallace Reid in the 1922 film, The World's Champion. McCoy was also friends with many movie stars of the day, including Charles Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith, who directed the 1919 silent film, Broken Blossoms, Selby's second film as actor.

Mary Kom is an Indian Amatuer boxer, who is the only female to become World Amatuer boxing Champion for a record six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Olympics, competing in the flyweight category and winning a bronze medal. She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by AIBA. She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Mary Kom grew up in humble surroundings, helping her parents with farm related chores, going to school and learning athletics initially and later boxing. Furthermore, Kom kept her interest in boxing a secret from her father, himself an ex-wrestler, as he was concerned that boxing would hurt Kom's face and spoil her chances of marriage. However, he learnt of it when Kom's photo appeared in a newspaper after she won the state boxing championship in 2000. After three years, her father began to support Kom's pursuits in boxing as he grew convinced of her love of boxing.

Today's episode is about Andre Michael Ward, a Olympic Gold medalist, who is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and held multiple world titles in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super), WBC, Ring magazine, and lineal super middleweight titles between 2009 and 2015; and the unified WBA (Undisputed), IBF, WBO, and Ring light heavyweight titles between 2016 and 2017. During his reign as light heavyweight champion, Ward was ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), as well as the world's best active boxer in the division by The Ring, the TBRB, and BoxRec.

Today's Episode is about a Mexican-American former boxer who competed between 1994 and 2017. He held multiple welterweight world championships, including the WBO title from 2002 to 2007, the IBF title in 2008, and the WBA (Super) title from 2008 to 2009. Nicknamed El Tornado de Tijuana ("The Tijuana Tornado"), Margarito was known for his aggressive pressure fighting style and exceptionally durable chin. In 2009, just before his fight with Shane Mosley, Margarito was involved in an incident where he was caught with illegal hand wraps containing gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) which, when combined with moisture, forms plaster of Paris, this lead to him being banned from boxing for at least a year. Furthermore, some of his wins came into question, for example, his stoppage victory over Miguel Cotto in 2008 was subsequently called into question.

Today's episode is about a Cuban Professional Boxer, who is one of greatest amatuers of all time, Having Won two Olympic Gold medals but has also reached the pinnacle in the Pro ranks having become a two-weight world champion, having held the WBA (Regular) bantamweight title since February 2020 and previously, the unified WBA (Super), WBO, and Ring magazine super-bantamweight titles between 2013 and 2017.

Today's Episode is about a former Professional fighter, Ryan Burnett who is a former unified bantamweight world champion, having held the WBA (Unified) and IBF titles between 2017 and 2018. At regional level he held the British bantamweight title from 2015 to 2017. As an amateur, he represented Ireland at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and won a gold medal in the light-flyweight division, In addition to this, he retired young at the age of 27 due to persistent injuries and now is a personal trainer, listen to the podcast to find out how he dealt with retiring young and how he became a PT and to get a insight on his boxing career.

This episode is about one of the greatest British fighters ever to come out of the UK and one of the best Light welterweighs of all time, he fought and beat Pound for pound great and world champion Kostya Tszyu as a massive underdog, he fought also the likes of Castillo, Malignaggi, Mayweather, Pacquiao, He reached the pinnacle of boxing and was and is still one of the most beloved and popular British boxers of all time, with a raucous fan base that travelled in their tens of thousands across the Atlantic to support him. In addition to this Hatton had a lot of struggles outside of the ring as he suffered with depression for many years and many ups and downs in his boxing career affected him outside the ropes also falling out with family and his trainer affected him, this all lead to him drinking alcohol and trying drugs and he was spiraling out of control, however he got better as he had the support of a good girlfriend, good people and a good team, he got himself fit and now trains boxers and is trying to bring the next champion, he and his team can be proud of.

Today's Episode is about a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996. He had a highly publicised and eventful career, both in and out of the ring. The pinnacle of Bruno's boxing career was winning the WBC heavyweight title from Oliver McCall at a packed Wembley Stadium in 1995, in what was his fourth world championship challenge. Bruno faced multiple top-rated heavyweights throughout his career, including two fights against Mike Tyson in 1989 and 1996, and a domestic clash against Lennox Lewis in 1993.

He was also known for his exceptional punching power, scoring 38 knockouts in 40 wins, giving him a 95% knockout-to-win ratio. In addition to this, I talk also about the struggles and hardships Bruno went through dealing with his mental health.

Today's episode is about a former Heavyweight World champion who's early years were hard bitten, hungry and violent as he was beaten up by his father, most of time for no reason and was neglected by his mother. He's life was a very unique one, he had ties to the mafia and was constantly knocking heads with the law. The life of Liston consisted of discrimination, hurt and sadness as when ever something good happend to him, he was knocked down, for example when he beat Floyd Patterson to win the World title, no one was there to give him a homecoming when he got of the plane because of his demeanor, intimidating looks and past full of crime, he felt like he was never accepted by the fans, However, it got worse when Sonny Liston was found dead in his bedroom in Las Vegas pretty decomposed in one of the biggest mysteries in Boxing as there where so many theories that lead to his death, for example, a loansharking ring, heroin overdose, murdered by drug dealers and the police covered it up etc.

Amanda Serrano is Widely considered as one of GWOATs in boxing having achieved world titles in 7 weight divisions. Today episode is about a legend who reached the pinnacle of boxing also helped women boxing grow to the level it is today, where the future generations coming through, specially the girls don't have to go through the struggle and hardship of not being able to make a living from boxing, it isn't exactly where everyone wants it to be yet, however it is slowly progressing and is getting the recognition it deserves because of fighters like Amanda Serrano, the future is looking promising for not just Women boxing but for Boxing in general.

This episode is about a 2 weight world champion, who was a dangerous undefeated power puncher with KO in all his fights. Who grew up with the struggles of deep poverty, being banned in the USA to being charged with suspicion of killing his Wife brutally who was found in her hotel room in a pool of blood.

This episode is about how Jacobs got into boxing and how he got through the battle of Cancer and losing his Grandmother to go on and achieve his aspiration and goal of becoming a World champion.